I often think people really do see the world different then me ...not just in theoretical construct but actually see it different. Take for example the word "objectification". I understand what that word means but I simply can't see it or experience it in the same way other people do. In particular, I am completely unable to experience it as a negative thing. I can't see what they see. I am not capable of seeing people as objects or maybe more to the point, I can't see objects as being people. People say things like "that picture objectifies women" and I simply just don't get it. I can't see it as anything else but an object that I can hold in my hand. No matter how much I yell at it, call it a bitch, or even use it as a back stop for my man juice, it's not going to feel anything about that or care. I know it is not a person, it's a thing that I own. It is only a image, a depiction of a person but not a person. The same goes for them "child" sex dolls and cartoon porn and even some other images that are considered porn (i.e nudity... not images based on a person being forced or hurt ). I can't see what other people see and the idea of it doesn't invoke any negative response from me. Take an image of a kid happily playing nude on the beach. I simply can't see what is so evil about that image that it would warrant putting someone in prison for 15 years for having it or looking at it. It is simply an object, a thing, not a person. I am sure that I am deficient in some way because I don't see what other people see when they look at these things. That's not to say that I don't think it is correct to put limits on pictures showing people being hurt or at least, there are limits to what I think is acceptable (I am not sure that I object to reenactments where no one is really hurt). I certainly don't want to see any pictures of Christian or Muslim extremists beheading a gay kids. That would cross the line for me. I am sure that there are a lot more things that I just don't get. Things that I can't get worked up by in the same way as it works up other people. I guess it is all in the eye of the beholder. International Boylove Day BoyWiki |